Best Practice – I

TITLE OF THE PRACTICE: SHESHAKTI: Empower & Inspire

In an effort to liberate and empower female students in the socio economic arenas, MGMM through its SHESHAKTI: Empower & Inspire, strives to raise awareness among young girls about gender reality. The college believes that proactive scholarly intervention is needed to instil an entrepreneurial mind-set in young females, enabling them to become "job providers rather than job seekers."

OBJECTIVES OF THE PRACTICE

• Nurturing of entrepreneurial talent by the Entrepreneurship Development Cell of the college Elevation of Underprivileged Sections of the Society
• Encouraging and Facilitating Innovation among girl students
• Skill based self-help creative activities to help students to stand economically strong Outreach Activities Outcome: Institutional Social Responsibility
• Environmental Awareness Process
• Developing Leaders through Volunteerism
• Regular Conduction of Student Centric Activities

CONTEXT

The objective fundamentally aspires towards a holistic education by focusing on the women empowerment initiatives to inculcate among students’ gender sensitivity and moral responsibility for each citizen without any gender bias. Its aim is to allow women to achieve independent self-made status with higher standards of living, Creating a Positive and Inclusive Culture.

THE PRACTICE

1. Mata Gujri Mahila Mahavidyalaya offers a number of creative activities for students which is a proof of our commitment in providing students with the opportunity to carry a Quality Education with assurance to become self-reliant.
2. Understand our socio-economic realities so as to solve vital questions and make a meaningful intervention.
3. The motivation of students to explore innovate and engage with the work of their line of interest.
4. Offering Autonomy with Ownership of Work.
5.  Our institution also provides Live Lab: Scientific training programmes for participants from nearby institutions amid life skills sessions
6. Outreach Activities: availability of varied information to students beyond the campus in the form of Sharing Intellectual and Cultural Learning
7. Extension Service for Rural Transformation(UBA); Fostering Community Responsibility & implementation of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
8. Developing Leaders through Volunteerism
9. The Institution supports students from unstable economic backgrounds with affordable fees.

EVIDENCE OF SUCCESS

• The success of the practice is in the wide range of activities conducted -
• ‘Understanding the concept of self-dependence using their innovative ideas, creating various products.
• The plan to resolve the problems encountered was then put into action by pushing the given targets
• Fund raising by students for their own initiatives
• Organising Open Haat to help students understand the consumer demand and marketing strategies for the self-made products
• This practice effectively communicates crucial information about the community Responsibilities empowering to students, thereby enabling them to retain key concepts.
• Large number of students involvement, connectedness towards society, breeding of values and ethics in students laying foundations for the formation Better Society.

PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED

Along with academic autonomy a large number of the courses offered in the Programme integrated in the regular syllabus. But this constraint in fact turned out to be an advantage as the experiential learning system came in. The other challenge at times is not to compromise on the quality of the curriculum in the attempt to take the learning beyond the classroom.